Biography: When a young man of 19, Ray went west from Kingsley, Michigan to Montana He claimed 160 acres at Spring Lake in eastern Montana, specifically
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NE 14/ 24-N 55-E No MONTANA PM MT RICHLANDBiography: He built a cabin, worked the land and seeded the grain For money to live on, he worked for a threshing crew that followed the crops, heading north He met Nora Meyer while threshing on her father's large farm at Rugby, North Dakota
Biography: After the threshing was over, Ray had to return to his own homestead He and Nora courted by mail, using the Morse Code he had learned from his brother Charles, a telegrapher in Michigan Ray and Nora were married on 15 Feb 1914 at Culbertson, Montana, and lived on his homestead They had thirteen children; Agnes, Lorance and Lora (twins), Ralph, Nicholas, Ernest and Clement were born in Montana Agnes died 10 months after her birth
Biography: Ray had poor crops, due to extremely dry weather and grasshoppers demolished the grain There were terrible dust storms that blew with such force into piles in the cabin, even through the smallest of cracks under the doors and around windows Nora retained the habit of plugging up the tiniest cracks, and the keyholes, even after they moved here to Wisconsin She told of the dreaded prairie fires, but their home was, thankfully, never in the path of one
Biography: In 1922 they gave up their Montana homestead and moved to Rugby, North Dakota near Nora's folks, where Eileen was born The Montana homestead is still called the Cuddeback place, when referring to its location However, they are still plagued by the grasshoppers
Biography: When they moved to Park Falls, in 1924, Ray got a job at the Hines Mill and they moved into a company home in North White City (now North 1st Avenue), Park Falls Marie and Mary (twins) was born there Mary died shortly after birth The children attended St Anthony's School
Biography: Ray got work as a fireman at the Flambeau Paper Company, then also bought a Model T truck and hauled rubbish for local businesses By 1927, they had rented a larger house, in the south end of town, on the street directly west of the now Southside Shopping Center Fern, Rita and Lloyd were born in this house Rita died within two years of her birth
Biography: A family with ten children needed a big yard to play, and room for a large garden They moved to Eisenstein that summer, and rented a home on the Frank Wallner property near the edge of town These were times of childhood well remembered, like playing in the sawdust pile behind Wallner's Mill, and father Cuddeback whistling or singing Irish songs while at his toolbench in the woodshed; Mom at the old pump organ by the candle lit tree, all singing, and papa's bass voice loudest of all He didn't sing when his hammer or screwdriver got legs and walked off and nobody did it This "Nobody" got the blame every day for different things in a large family When the boy's shack in the back yard burned down, it was his fault I'm sure It was soon forgotten, as they built another right away Those black potatoes tasted good, whether cooked in or on, the old barrel stove That was the origin of the Cuddeback cookouts and it happened in the 30's There wasn't too much company out in the country One time, Fern's classmate, Caroline Yendrzeski, and several others from near the Jefferson School came to visit and play The dog, Rex, nipped Caroline's leg, so that was her last visit Doris Resch came once in a while to see Eileen and Marie The boys, being older, went more and more and had more friends drop by John (Bugs) Engelbert got to be a regular visitor and became a family friend He even stayed some times for a dinner of fried eggs and fried potatoes around the large table, after Ray gave him a haircut That called for the girls to make an extra stop by the "looking glass" and give the hair a quick flip of the comb "Company" for dinner was very special in this household and quite rare
Biography: In 1937, with the three oldest out of school and working, Ray found a large home in Lymantown, in need of improvements, but affordable There was an extra lot for a big garden, too, so the family made their last move and the first one they owned since in Montana It was the very first home with electric lights and they got an electric washing machine Then they didn't have to take turns pulling the lever back and forth to make it go
Biography: This was really city living, and with kids across the alley and the street
Nora spent her early life on her father's farm near Rugby, North Dakota, having moved with her parents from Wisconsin to North Dakota when a small child Nora and her husband Ray spent many years in North Dakota and some time in the 1920s moved to Park Falls, Wisconsin Ray worked as a laborer there and some of the time for a local paper mill Their home was sold to their son Clement (Clem) Cuddeback
Nora spent her early life on her father's farm near Rugby, North Dakota, having moved with her parents from Wisconsin to North Dakota when a small child Nora and her husband Ray spent many years in North Dakota and some time in the 1920s moved to Park Falls, Wisconsin Ray worked as a laborer there and some of the time for a local paper mill Their home was sold to their son Clement (Clem) Cuddeback
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Info from Kenneth Cuddeback, from Pamela Swearengin Ballard Cuddeback
Info from Kenneth Cuddeback, from Pamela Swearengin Ballard Cuddeback
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GREW UP IN COMMUNITY OF VALE MOVED IN MARDH 1929 TO WORK AS SUPERVISOR OF THE DIVERSION DAM AND THE CANAL GOING TO ORMAN DAM @ AN AREA NE OF BELLE FOURCHE RETIRED IN 1946 AND MOVED TO WEST COAST RETURNED TO BELLE FOURCHE IN 1959
GREW UP IN COMMUNITY OF VALE MOVED IN MARDH 1929 TO WORK AS SUPERVISOR OF THE DIVERSION DAM AND THE CANAL GOING TO ORMAN DAM @ AN AREA NE OF BELLE FOURCHE RETIRED IN 1946 AND MOVED TO WEST COAST RETURNED TO BELLE FOURCHE IN 1959
[Jane L CuddebackFTW]
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MOVED WITH FAMILY FROM IA TO VALE, SD, IN 1909 LIVED SW OF TOWN
FOUR SONS WERE BORN WHILE RESIDING IN VALE COMMUNITY MOVED TO DIVERSION DAM NE OF BELLE FOURCHE IN MARCH, 1929, WHERE DAUGHTER WAS BORN HUSBAND WAS SUPERVISOR OF THE DIVERSION DAM AND THE CANAL GOING TO ORMAN DAMMOVED WITH FAMILY FROM IA TO VALE, SD, IN 1909 LIVED SW OF TOWN
FOUR SONS WERE BORN WHILE RESIDING IN VALE COMMUNITY MOVED TO DIVERSION DAM NE OF BELLE FOURCHE IN MARCH, 1929, WHERE DAUGHTER WAS BORN HUSBAND WAS SUPERVISOR OF THE DIVERSION DAM AND THE CANAL GOING TO ORMAN DAM
[Jane L CuddebackFTW]
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DIED AS RESULT OF SHOCK FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY IN CHILD BIRTH AN OVARIAN TUMOR WAS CONTRIBUTING CAUSE BURIED @ VALE, SD
DIED AS RESULT OF SHOCK FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY IN CHILD BIRTH AN OVARIAN TUMOR WAS CONTRIBUTING CAUSE BURIED @ VALE, SD
[Jane L CuddebackFTW]
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MARRIED TWO TIMES
#2-BESS IRENE SEITZ ON 12-27-1919 (B-10/10/1898 TO 12/21/1978)
CHILDREN FROM BESS:
ROSEADA STODDARD MCKEEHAN
DONALD DELOY (DIED IN ACTION WWII @ TARAWA)
RICHARD DAY
JOANNE LEA LEWIS
CHARLENE MAI WELSH
PLACE OF DEATH FROM HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF JOANNE LEWIS/STOD #45MARRIED TWO TIMES
#2-BESS IRENE SEITZ ON 12-27-1919 (B-10/10/1898 TO 12/21/1978)
CHILDREN FROM BESS:
ROSEADA STODDARD MCKEEHAN
DONALD DELOY (DIED IN ACTION WWII @ TARAWA)
RICHARD DAY
JOANNE LEA LEWIS
CHARLENE MAI WELSH
PLACE OF DEATH FROM HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF JOANNE LEWIS/STOD #45